Unit 1

Question 1

Psychology

Answer 1

Scientific study of the mind and behavior of

Question 2

Empirical method

Answer 2

observation/experimentation, not just logic/intuition

Question 3

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 3

German scientist, first psychologist, study of conscious experience. Goal was to identify components of consciousness and and how they make our conscious experience. Used introspection

Question 4

Introspection

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thinking about thinking. Examining one’s own conscious experience as objectively as possible and breaking it down into its components

Question 5

Structuralism

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developed by Edward Tichener, Wundt’s student. Focused on contents of mental processes and the individual parts of the mind, not their function. Introspection

Question 6

William James

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established functional psychology. Believed natural selection could explain behavior.

Question 7

Functionalism

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Studying the function of behaviors; how they help an organism fit into its environment. Also the operation of the whole mind, not its individual parts

Question 8

Sigmund Freud

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Developed psychoanalytic theory. Believed mental problems arose from unconscious mind; used dream analysis, slips, free association

Question 9

Psychoanalytic theory

Answer 9

the role of the unconscious and early childhood

Question 10

Wertheimer, Koffka, Kohler

Answer 10

German psychologists, introduced the US to Gestalt

Question 11

Gestalt

Answer 11

“Whole.” The relationship between the parts of a sensory experience is what an individual responds to, not the individual parts